About 130 BSs, near 150 MSs and 4 PhDs have been educated
on these courses. Students’ evaluation of these courses was always
much higher than department average, except for
two occasions. The courses “Graduate Seminar”, “MS Thesis”,
“Independent Studies”,
and “PhD Dissertation”, were also delivered.

COURSES DELIVERED IN FIU DURING 1991-1998

— Intermediate Analysis of Mechanical Systems
(EGM 5315 for MS students in engineering).
— Conduction Heat Transfer (EML 6154, for MS/PhD students in heat
transfer).
— Advanced Analysis of Mechanical Systems (EGM 6422, for MS/PhD students
in engineering).
— Mechanical Vibration Analysis (EML 4220, for undergraduate students
in engineering).
— Advanced Mechanical Vibrations Analysis (EML 6223, for MS/PhD students
in robotics, optimal design and mechanics).
— Synthesis of Engineering Mechanics (EGM 5615, for MS students in
materials science, robotics and optimal design).
— Mechanics and Materials Science (EMA 3702, for undergraduate students
in engineering).
— Classical Dynamics (EML 5125, for MS students in robotics and optimal
design).
— Boundary Value Problems of Function Theory (EML 7991, for PhD students
in fluid or solid mechanics).
— Principles of Composite Materials (EMA 5295, for MS students in
materials science).
— Boundary Problems in Engineering (EML 7749, for PhD students in
engineering).
— Fracture Mechanics (EGM 6570, for MS/PhD students in mechanics and
materials science).
— Advanced Theory of Elasticity (EML 6654, for MS/PhD students in
engineering and materials science).
— Fatigue and Failure Analysis (EML 6233, for MS/PhD students in materials
science).
— Advanced Fracture Mechanics (EGM 7990, for PhD students in mechanics
and materials science).
— Mechanics of Vortex and Separated Flows (EML 7728, for PhD students
in fluid dynamics).

Syllabus of these courses follow bellow.

INTERMEDIATE ANALYSIS OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Review of ordinary differential equations (ODE) and some
physical systems described by these equations:
— First order ODE
— Second order ODE
— Linear systems of ODE
— Stable or unstable solutions
Partial differential equations (PDE) and some physical systems described
by these equations:
— Derivation of PDE. Some models & problems of mechanics and physics
reduced to the standard PDE.

ADVANCED FRACTURE MECHANICS

— Review of classic linear fracture mechanics.
Stress intensity factor. Local fracture criterion and fracture toughness.
— Surface energy of solids in terms of invariant or path-independent
integral.
— Adhesion energy of different solids in terms of invariant or path-independent
integral. Analysis of basic problems: a thin film on a substrate, a thin
plate on a substrate, two bonded membranes, two bonded beams, and a thin
film deposited on a thin plate.
— Debonding of two different elastic-plastic and viscoelastic materials.
— Crack nucleation: impinging a dislocation upon an interface, encounter
of two dislocation pileups, and hole coalescence in amorphous materials.
— Fracture or failure waves in brittle materials. Explosion as a process
of liberation of internal energy. Energetic materials.
— Dislocation emission. Nanomechanics of dislocation generation and
crack growth in polycrystalline materials. Screw shear model.
— Super-deep penetration at the Rayleigh speed. Rayleighon.
— Fractal cracks in solids. Fractal analysis of failure.